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KAVALAN
GREEN LEADER AWARDS
Celebrating sustainability, innovation, and creativity in wide-format print.
The Kavalan Green Leader awards are back for 2026 to once again shine a light on the projects, people, and businesses championing wide-format print sustainability.
Now in their second year, the Green Leader awards celebrate innovative applications of Kavalan’s PVC-free materials, recognising creativity, technical excellence, and environmental responsibility across the global print industry. This year also sees the addition of two new judges and a brand new award category. 
Winners will be announced live at FESPA Global Print Expo in Barcelona in May 2026.
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Award Categories
The Innovation Award
This award recognises a particularly innovative, impactful, and creative project that utilises Kavalan materials.
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Green Spirit Award
The Green Spirit category aims to recognise projects that go beyond material choice to embed sustainability throughout production, processes, energy use, or wider environmental decision-making.
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Powerhouse Award
Powerhouse acknowledges projects that showcase the strength, durability, and weldability of Kavalan materials, demonstrating excellent performance in demanding environments and long-term installations.
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Wrap Star Award
The Wrap Star award is presented to a standout wrap project that captures attention and delivers impact through scale, execution, or measurable client outcomes.
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Kavalan Champion Award
The only category recognising a business rather than a wide-format print project, the Kavalan Champion is a print business or distributor that promotes sustainability in print and actively advocates for PVC-free materials.
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Green Spark Award
Green Spark is a future-focused category that invites students, apprentices, and early-career creatives to design a conceptual print-based project that highlights how creativity and sustainability can coexist. This category is about bold ideas, clear thinking, and inspiring the next generation to design responsibly from the very start of their careers.
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Entries are submitted via a simple, user-friendly online form, designed to make participation straightforward for both individual entrants and distributors supporting customer submissions. If you need any support, please contact us
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Award Entry Criteria
  1. For the Kavalan Green Leader Awards to be awarded in 2026, the assessment period will extend from 1 March 2024 to 28 February 2026.
  2. Entries must be submitted in the format specified in the Entry Form for the relevant award category, taking care to adhere to the word limits, image resolution and file formats specified.
  3. With the exception of the ‘Kavalan Champion’ award, which recognises a business, and the Green Spark Award, which recognises an individual/team, projects entered must have been printed on one of the following Kavalan materials:
    • Kavalan Sunlight (Sunlight 260, Sunlight 280GB, Sunlight 300, Sunlight 310 TAICHI, Sunlight Light Banner, Sunlight Weldable, Sunlight ZeRO and/or Sunlight Weldable Basic)
    • Kavalan Moonlight (Moonlight 200 and/or Moonlight River)
    • Kavalan Butterfly (Butterfly 360 Soft and/or Butterfly Weldable)
    • Kavalan Spiderweb (Spiderweb 300, Spiderweb Super and/or Spiderweb 300 Liner)
    • Kavalan Gecko (Gecko Stroma, Gecko 300, Gecko 320GB, Gecko DECO and/or Gecko FR-AD)
  4. With the exception of the ‘Kavalan Champion’ and ‘Green Spark’ awards, all entries must be accompanied by at least three high resolution (min 300 dpi) images of the application being entered.
  5. With the exception of the ‘Kavalan Champion’ and ‘Green Spark’ awards, where entries rely on figures generated using the Kavalan Eco Calculator, the figures entered must be included in the entry so that these can be verified.
Judges of KAVALAN Green Leader Awards
Entries are assessed against clear criteria including problem-solving, outcomes, sustainability impact, and overall project value.
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